You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Mugged by my own mother.

Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?

Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened from "slow walk" to "fifty-meter-dash." I turned and found that-yes, indeed-the god Anubis had crashed our dance.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.